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A short tale of blood, kidney and brain: BK virus encephalitis in an allogeneic stem cell transplant recipient

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  1. C Bourlon and S Alamoudi: These authors contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Allogeneic Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Canada

    C Bourlon, S Alamoudi, A Viswabandya, S Thyagu, F V Michelis, D (D-H) Kim, J H Lipton, H A Messner & U Deotare

  2. Transplant Infectious Diseases, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada

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Bourlon, C., Alamoudi, S., Kumar, D. et al. A short tale of blood, kidney and brain: BK virus encephalitis in an allogeneic stem cell transplant recipient. Bone Marrow Transplant 52, 907–909 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2017.18

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